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Watch Chadwick Boseman Face Off With Viola Davis In His Final Role

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The anticipated film is an adaptation of August Wilson’s critically acclaimed stage play. Set in 1927’s Chicag, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom stars Viola Davis as the real life “Mother of the Blues” Gertrude Rainey.

It also features the late Chadwick Boseman in his final film. The project was produced by long time Wilson fan, Denzel Washington, who starred alongside Davis in another adaptation of Wilson’s stage and film adaptation of Fences.

Davis earned a Tony Award (2010) and an Academy Award (2017) for her role as Rose,the long suffering wife in Fences. Boseman portrays the cutthroat trumpet player Levee.

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